John Hemming names Ryan Giggs as footballer at centre of Twitter gagging row

The footballer at the centre of a gagging order over a relationship with
reality TV star Imogen Thomas was named by an MP in the Commons today.

5:29PM BST 23 May 2011

Mr Hemming, the Liberal Democrat MP for Birmingham Yardley, who has been campaigning against injunctions, said it was not practical to imprison the 75,000 Twitter followers who have already named the player.

He used parliamentary privilege to identify the star at the centre of the injunction just minutes after the High Court refused to lift a ban on naming the sportsman who had a relationship with the Big Brother star.